What Are You Doing Right Now

gjacobse

Nothing like starting the mid week after a holiday morning with being 'beaten' with a hot wet mop.... ugh.. it rained nearly all day yesterday and the sun peaked out about 7pm, Just returned from a walk around the local public pond.... it's nice to flex the knee - but goodness... I almost think i would be dryer if I had just jumped into the pond.

Joy

Creating the list of Microsoft updates.
Hello Everyone

dafyre

@Joy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Creating the list of Microsoft updates.
Hello Everyone

Hey Joy! Long time, no see! How have you been?

Joy

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Joy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Creating the list of Microsoft updates.
Hello Everyone

Hey Joy! Long time, no see! How have you been?

Pretty good, I been busy with school, I missed trolling around here in ML.

dafyre

@Joy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Joy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Creating the list of Microsoft updates.
Hello Everyone

Hey Joy! Long time, no see! How have you been?

Pretty good, I been busy with school, I missed trolling around here in ML.

I thought you had finished with school already. How much longer do you have to go?

Also: Troll away!

EddieJennings

Meeting with execs today to see if they officially say "yes, we want to lower phone system costs by 50%."

DustinB3403

@EddieJennings It'll get turned around that they want to spend 50% more!

EddieJennings

@DustinB3403 Ha! They'll want a T1 line for each individual person, so each person can make 23 simultaneous calls.

wirestyle22

I received a phone call today from a city worker asking me to teach him how to use the system. When I asked him what he is attempting to use he said "The computer". He does not know how to use a computer. This is required knowledge for any city employee--of course the level of knowledge does vary.

You guys ever need to teach a user from the ground up? Seems like they should be paying for training for this dude.

EddieJennings

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I received a phone call today from a state worker asking me to teach him how to use the system. When I asked him what he is attempting to use he said "The computer". He does not know how to use a computer. This is required knowledge for any city employee--of course the level of knowledge does vary.

You guys ever need to teach a user from the ground up? Seems like they should be paying for training for this dude.

I haven't been explicitly asked to teach someone from the ground up, but there have been some hires who, through the task of orientation, were taught from the ground up.

wirestyle22

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I received a phone call today from a state worker asking me to teach him how to use the system. When I asked him what he is attempting to use he said "The computer". He does not know how to use a computer. This is required knowledge for any city employee--of course the level of knowledge does vary.

You guys ever need to teach a user from the ground up? Seems like they should be paying for training for this dude.

I haven't been explicitly asked to teach someone from the ground up, but there have been some hires who, through the task of orientation, were taught from the ground up.

The problem here is even when they do pay for training no one attends because the last company held everyone's hands so much they never felt the need to learn anything. "IT will do it".

EddieJennings

@wirestyle22 What is this "pay for training?"

DustinB3403

I'm talking with @Danp on the best way to address the update issue a few people have been experiencing. (my self included).

EddieJennings

Bah! Vultr is still sold out of storage instances.

Dashrender

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I received a phone call today from a city worker asking me to teach him how to use the system. When I asked him what he is attempting to use he said "The computer". He does not know how to use a computer. This is required knowledge for any city employee--of course the level of knowledge does vary.

You guys ever need to teach a user from the ground up? Seems like they should be paying for training for this dude.

This seems like a total failing on the part of this employee. Regardless of how old they are - clearly they have made no efforts at self improvement to be valuable as an employee, otherwise they would at least have basic - turn it on, logon, get on internet type knowledge.

If the city still found them so valuable that they hired them anyway, then it's probably justified that they still don't need a computer, and that someone else should be doing the computer portion of the work for them so they can continue to be super valuable to the city.